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Hollywood Motivations

February 3, 2006

Wow… You just don’t often see a good world-class fisking these days that doesn’t directly involve Iraq or Bush, but John Rogers over to Kung Fu Monkey has delivered a nice one on this year’s Oscar nominations and what really drives Hollywood agendas (it’s the money — duh, there’s a shocker.)

However, I think I finally understand — exactly –the tone of voice General Tommy Franks used when describing the REMF-platonic-ideal Doug Feith as the “fucking stupidest guy on the face of the earth.” It is not a snarl, nor a roar, but instead a sort of exhausted awe. Because I must say, I do think Jason Apuzzo of Libertas, the wee conservative film movement, possibly may be — and I do not offer this lightly — the fucking stupidest guy on the face of the earth.

Fortunately he warms to his topic from there, and at length — proving that what Hollywood needs most is more people who can write as well as Rogers…

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